Pro-Ject Essential III Turntable
The Pro-Ject Essential III is the perfect solution for the budding audiophile, with precision-crafted materials and a simple, elegant design that looks as lovely as it sounds.
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The Pro-Ject Essential III is the perfect solution for the budding audiophile, with precision-crafted materials and simple, elegant designs that look as lovely as they sound. Building on the award-winning Essential II, the new Essential III features a more refined bearing and an improved MDF body to give you smooth playback and a lively, balanced sound.
Simple, elegant design
Clean lines and classic geometry make the Essential III a stylish addition to any room, continuing Pro-Ject’s decades-long reputation for elegant, understated turntables.
Engineered with care:
Ortofon OM10 Cartridge & aluminium tonearm.
The Essential III Phono comes pre-fitted with an Ortofon OM10 cartridge. Its smooth movement allows the OM10 to extract astounding new details from your records, and bring them to life with a vivid, evocative feel. The cartridge works in concert with Pro-Ject’s finely-engineered 8.6” aluminium tonearm to reveal detail in your favourite records like you’ve never heard before.
MDF construction
A major design evolution from the award-winning Essential II, the MDF used in the body and platter of the Essential III offers a more solid build, with better vibration-management for a smooth, natural tone.
Check out our easy step by step Essential III setup guide:
Key Features:
Adjustable Counterweight & Anti-skating weight
Unlike the Jukebox & Primary lines, the Essential ranges features adjustable counterweights and anti-skating weights to accomodate any stylus or cartridge upgrade in the future.
Manual speed control
Play both 33rpm and 45rpm records with a simple adjustment of the pulley which the drive belt sits on.
Connect-It E Included
The Essential III comes with the shielded Connect-It E RCA cable ready to go, so the sound that comes off the record will come out of your speakers crystal-clear and free of interference.
Specifications:
| Speed: | 33, 45 (manual speed change) |
| Principle: | belt drive |
| Speed variance: | 33: 0,70% 45: 0,60% |
| Wow & flutter: | 33: 0,21% 45: 0,19% |
| Platter: | 300mm MDF with felt mat (0,8kg) |
| Main bearing: | stainless steel |
| Tonearm: | 8,6” aluminium |
| Effective arm length: | 218,5 mm |
| Overhang: | 22,0mm |
| Effective tonearm mass: | 8,0gr |
| Counterweight for mass: | 3 - 5,5g (included) |
| Tracking force range: | 0 - 25mn (OM5 18mn recommended) |
| Included accessory: | power supply, dust cover |
| Power consumption: | 4,5 watts max |
| Dimensions: | 420 x 112 x 330mm (WxHxD) |
| Weight: | 5,0 kg net |
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